REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
LYDDITE SHELL'S FALL ON TO A BATTLESHIP'S DECK. During tlic Riling of the magazine of H.M.S. Thunderer, at Devonport recently, it hits transpired, says the "Central an accident happened which might easilv have been attended with consequence's of an appalling: character. The work of filling the magazine was nearly complete, when a fully-charged lyddite shell, intended for the battleship's 13.5iguns, slipped from tho sling by winch shells are lowered from the upper deck, and fell to the floor of tho magazine, a distance of about thirty feet. These shells tiro about five feet long and weigh Ucwt. Those of tho crew who witnessed the accident wero horrified, and, anticipating an explosion, rushed as far from tho scene as possible, iiUluuikli, if the shell had burst, nothing could have ■ saved them. So great wns the impart that tho fuse was dented, hut by what is regarded as almost a miracle, uo Axplosion occurred. Wnrls w,i.s appended for a time, to on-
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1522, 19 August 1912, Page 9
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162REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1522, 19 August 1912, Page 9
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